Bees
When the Queen Died, Someone Had to Tell the Bees
Follow the latest news on Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral. LONDON — As news of the death of Queen Elizabeth II reverberated through the world, a headline over the weekend puzzled many on social media: The Daily Mail’s exclusive that the “royal beekeeper has informed the Queen’s bees that the Queen has died.” Did bees need […]
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Millions of Bees Bound for Alaska Are Rerouted and Die in Atlanta
When Sarah McElrea arrived at the Anchorage airport last Friday to pick up the 800 pounds of honeybees she was having shipped from Sacramento, she got the first sense of a disaster in the making: The bees — some five million of them — were in Atlanta, not Anchorage. The 200 crates of bees were […]
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In Wisconsin: Stowing Mowers, Pleasing Bees
As I drove last May through Appleton, Wis., the small town offered up a series of idyllic scenes: children playing on tree-lined streets, couples walking their dogs, and all the while, the wind carrying the sweetness of spring. But something was unusual here. The lawns of many of the homes were wild. Resembling miniature meadows, […]
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